Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fitted present Communist postures and predicaments. As propaganda, it obscured the fact that the U.S. has long since withdrawn all but two divisions. As a practical matter, the 350,000 Chinese troops in North Korea are a drain on its shaky economy, and back in China they can flesh out the none too plentiful labor force, still act as reserves ready to pour back across the border if necessary. Weapons kept by the U.S. in South Korea capable of delivering nuclear warheads rankle Peking and Moscow, and while Chou was ranting last week, Russia chimed in with a proposal...
...pressed the instrument to the center of my forehead and rotated the handle . . . There was no particular pain as it penetrated the skin and flesh, but there was a little jolt as the end hit the bone . . . Suddenly there was a little 'scrunch' and the instrument penetrated the bone . . . there was a blinding flash . . . The Lama Mingyar Dondup turned to me and said: 'You are now one of us, Lobsang. For the rest of your life you will see people as they are and not as they pretend to be.' It was a very strange experience...
Young Dumas' famed novel, The Lady of the Camellias (made into a play by Dumas himself and into a grand opera-La Traviata-by Verdi) was based on his love for Courtesan Marie Duplessis. She supplied him with "intoxicating orgies of the flesh"-and he, in return, struggled to reform her, adored her most when she "played the part of the repentant Magdalene." Marie died of consumption at 23, and young Dumas never forgot her glamorous, terrible life. He became "The Man in Flight from Temptation," began to write plays in which seducers were condemned with such cold precision...
...only so many chairs. After the old man (Eli Wallach) has delivered a "message" about the world, he and his wife throw themselves into the water. Swimming in symbolism, The Chairs readily enough suggests people's enisled fate in life's estranging sea, their efforts to flesh their daydreams, enforce their beliefs, communicate, be remembered. Providing playfully humorous touches and some remarkable stage effects, The Chairs is at times both engaging and lightly evocative, but calls for greater imaginative pressure, has no really tragic underside to its surface drolleries...
Ziusudra's Ark. For the bare bones of her account, Author Hill uses the 377 verses of the Bible (Genesis 11:27-25:11). To flesh them out she draws upon The Book of Jubilees, a Hebrew document, probably of the 3rd or 4th century B.C., that purports to be a series of messages about the history of mankind given to Moses by an angel. By far the most interesting elements in the book are provided by the latest diggings in Iraq, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers...